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Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
A child’s misery at daycare is not
limited to the onset of beginning their new routine. Nor is it limited to
the first ten minutes of the day upon being left. Children are continually
crying in daycare because there is often no one available to pick them up
when they fall, wipe their noses when they have a cold, kindly show them
that hitting and biting is wrong, or tenderly change their diapers.
Category = Behavior, Caregiver |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
Chapter 3 - LONG DAYS of HARD WORK
Children spend more time in daycare than their parents spend sitting at
their desks at work. When parents are alone in their cars commuting to work,
their children are already one of many children in daycare. When parents
leave their work for a coffee break, their children cannot leave daycare.
When parents sit in lunchrooms and restaurants or quietly in their offices,
their children are still at daycare.
Daycare is Hard Work A full day of “school” is incredibly long. It is so
long, in fact, that employees are not capable of working the entire time the
center is operational. Most centers are open from at least seven in the
morning until six o’clock at night and many are open longer. Fifty-five
hours a week is too long to ask an employee to be on the job, and yet, some
parents do not consider this too long to leave their children.
Category = Caregiver, Politics |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
We often hear of “quality-time” versus
“quantity-time” from daycare advocates. I do not believe there is much
quality-time to be had after putting in an eight to ten hour day at the
office or daycare. Parents are too tired and children are as well. Not only
did the parents work all day, now they must complete all of the tasks that
were not accomplished while at work. The children must go to the grocery
store when they are exhausted and starved for attention. Upon arriving at
home, parents have to worry about paying the bills, making dinner, doing the
dishes, placing phone calls, making sure there are clean clothes for the
following day, etc.
Category = Behavior, Caregiver |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
Chapter 4 – SIBLINGS
When children grow up in daycare, they are raised five days a week without
their siblings. In order to manage the varying needs of daycare children,
they are almost always divided into age groups. These different groups of
children are housed in separate rooms...
This means that... a baby entering daycare may be separated each day from
his siblings until dinnertime. This is a fact that is rarely mentioned when
discussing the pros and cons of daycare.
Category = Caregiver, Politics, Quality |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
When the great daycare debate is
discussed, people always focus on how children are separated from their
parents at a young age. I have never heard the point addressed that children
also ... are denied the ability to play, comfort or even disagree and argue
with their brothers and sisters five days a week. They do not nap together,
eat together, or even talk together from early in the morning until close to
their bedtimes.
Category = Caregiver, Politics, Quality |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
Chapter 5 - THE SOCIALIZATION MYTH
Perhaps the weakest excuse for the promotion of daycare is socialization.
How often have we heard it said that daycare is beneficial because it
provides an opportunity for babies and child to “socialize”? First of all,
babies do not really socialize with one another. They do need love,
cuddling, kisses, hugs, intimate feedings, and tons of one-on-one
interaction with their parents but they do not yearn to spend their days
lying about on a rug with other infants.
Babies are negatively affected by being placed in a 40-hour week social
situation because they are not developmentally ready. My experiences with
toddlers and two-year-olds are equally negative in terms of socialization.
I have witnessed much more hitting, biting, crying, and arguing amongst
these youngsters than I have sharing, playing, taking turns, etc.
Socializing in daycare fosters aggressive behavior simply because children
are forced to go into survival mode once deposited among so many other
children who are at a self-centered, “me” stage developmentally.
Category = Behavior, Caregiver, Danger |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
Survival
Children often need to work hard to “survive” emotionally and physically in
daycare.
Inevitably, children will snatch toys away from one another throughout the
day. As a daycare child, if you want to play with a toy for any period of
time, you must fight for it.
Category = Behavior, Caregiver |
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